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Posts Tagged Kim Dotcom

When you hear about file-sharing sites that focus on music and movies being monitored by the government, the most likely motivation that springs to mind is an anti-piracy campaign. Recent disclosures involving Canada’s Communications Security Establishment (CSE), however, reveals a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

There’s a certain element of online society that trumpets piracy as an unbeatable crime. The theory that piracy sites can be brought down but their owners will always bounce back is a popular one, played up by the likes of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Kim Dotcom is a name familiar to many. He’s the founder of the now defunct piracy facilitation service Mega and the current service Megaupload. Kim Dotcom, is a German citizen now in residence in New Zealand, awaiting extradition to the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Kim Dotcom felt no great need to compensate the creators he ripped off to build piracy site Megaupload, but now he apparently has no problem offering up $5 million as a “bounty” for anyone who’ll support his paranoid defense story. Yes, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Rarely does a week go by without exiled (and often reviled) file-sharing impresario Kim Dotcom making news, but his latest problems go beyond the mega. Dotcom is being sued, again, this time by six major movie studios who allege copyright […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

The founder of MP3Tunes was found to be liable for copyright infringement on Wednesday in a New York court. The founder, Michael Robertson, was found to have been “willfully blind” to the piracy taking place on his site. The suit […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

That didn’t take long. Popcorn Time is/was the piracy site that according to TechCrunch “takes all of the hassles out of torrenting a movie.” TechCrunch goes on to describe Popcorn Time as “essentially Netflix for pirated movies.” The launch of Popcorn Time was announced […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

The relationship between online advertising and piracy has a long and opaque history. Ad exchanges have been criticized for the indiscriminate placement of ads on pirate sites.The copyright community has long (and correctly) criticized players like Google for doing nothing […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Kim Dotcom is at it again. Two years to the day that his compound was raided by law enforcement, Kim Dotcom previewed his own hybrid of Spotify and iTunes. Media is like oxygen to the New Zealand based fugitive who’s […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Kim Dotcom last night told “60 Minutes” that the Feds went after him because he was the “perfect villain” in a Bond movie“I was inspired by the James Bond movies, you know? Where, you know, some characters had private […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…